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A you-beaut program is teaching pharmacy students the Aussie lingo. Pharmacy students from international backgrounds are learning Australian colloquialisms - as a matter of life and death. “Someone might tell a pharmacist they have a gut-ache, had a chunder, caught ...
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Biology student NSW Rhodes Scholar
Eleanor Bath, a science student at the University of NSW with a fascination for evolutionary biology, has been announced as the 2012 NSW Rhodes Scholar. She will travel to Oxford next year where she will undertake a DPhil in the ...
More »If something is broke, don’t wait to fix it.
The education sector can learn a lot from the health area about the faster use of research and technology. I called in to a health conference to make a contribution and at once was struck by the extent to which ...
More »ANU Burma fracas – the studied bite back
That researcher Ashley South is upset his report received a strongly worded response from the Karen National Union (The Nation 22/08/11 and Campus Review 31/10/11) indicates both his naivety as a public writer and his arrogance. South cites two articles ...
More »The TAFE revolution is here
Since the state governments seem intent on sacrificing their TAFE systems on the altar of the market, it behoves TAFE to develop strategies to protect itself because it won’t be protected by government. Despite the Council of Australian Governments’ proclamation ...
More »Stopping the student drift from VET
Recent research by the National Centre for Vocational and Educational Research (NCVER) on student intentions has exposed as largely a myth the long held belief, by some in VET, that enrolling students are often only interested in acquiring the skills ...
More »Macquarie to move to Bologna model
In a costly move, Macquarie University says it expects to completely overhaul the structure of its degree programs in 2013 by adopting the Bologna model. The change would see Macquarie drop all its one-year honours degrees and replace them with ...
More »UQ picks up most research grants from ARC
More than $310 million in Australian Research Council (ARC) research grants for more than 1000 projects were allocated last week by Innovation Minister Kim Carr. The money goes on projects as diverse as parenting interventions, better wine production and efficiency ...
More »Challenges facing Asian higher education
In this story you can live link to a one-day roundtable from Hong Kong where education leaders in Asia are discussing future challenges. The link will bring you to a the opening address from the second Asian Roundtable of Presidents of Universities of ...
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